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Jennifer Bradbury
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4169-9009-3
Keywords: Fathers & Daughters, Cascade Mountains,Rock climbing, Detective, Pearl Harbor, Japanese-American Incarceration Camps, Mental illness
Cara's father, an expert mountaineer, is missing. She needs to discover where he is and get him to take his medications. A World War II-era journal might hold the key.